核心畫面

Picture something that looks wrong from the outside, and the reason that makes it acceptable being laid alongside it. Sometimes a person supplies that reason; sometimes the circumstances themselves are reason enough. A separate, technical use takes the same idea of 'lining things up' and applies it literally, to text on a page.

可以想成:一件事從外面看起來不對勁,旁邊放上一個讓它站得住腳的理由。有時候是人提出那個理由;有時候是情況本身就已經足更多收起可以想成:一件事從外面看起來不對勁,旁邊放上一個讓它站得住腳的理由。有時候是人提出那個理由;有時候是情況本身就已經足夠當理由。另外還有一個技術性的用法,把「對齊」這件事照字面用在頁面上的文字。

From the picture

把文字排齊

這一層用的是「對齊、擺正」這個字面意思,跟講道理沒有關係。

align text · verb · B2

To arrange lines of writing on a page or screen so that they all start and end at the same distance from the edge.

使(文字)對齊;齊行

Also in this word

explain or defend · verb · B2

To explain or show good reasons for doing something that other people think is wrong or unfair.

辯解;為…辯護

be good reason for · verb · B2

To be a good enough reason for something that would normally seem wrong, unfair, or extreme.

構成…的正當理由;足以…

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

justifyverb/ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfaɪ/

  • 1

    To provide an acceptable explanation for.

    • How can you justify spending so much money on clothes?
    • Paying too much for car insurance is not justified.
  • 2

    To be a good reason behind a normally-unacceptable action; to warrant.

    • Nothing can justify your rude behaviour last night.
    • Unless the oppression is so extreme as to justify revolution, it would not justify the evil of breaking up a government, under an abstract constitutional right to do so.
  • 3

    mediapublishingtypographyTo arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.

    • The text will look better justified.
  • 4

    To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.

    • I cannot justify whom the law condemns.
    • And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • 5

    To give reasons for one’s actions; to make an argument to prove that one is in the right.

    • She felt no need to justify herself for deciding not to invite him.
    • And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
  • 6

    To prove; to ratify; to confirm.

    • She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been, By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all; When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge She is thy very princess.
    • […] say My wife’s a hobby-horse, deserves a name As rank as any flax-wench that puts to Before her troth-plight: say’t and justify’t.
  • 7

    lawTo show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject of a charge or accusation.

  • 8

    lawTo qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.

    • J'USTIFYING BAIL, practice, is the production of bail in court, who there justify' themselves against the exception of the plaintiff.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。